A teenager in the southern Dong Nai Province has been blinded in one eye after being injected with fillers at an unlicensed beauty clinic. The 17-year-old girl was brought to Cho Ray Hospital in HCMC bordering Dong Nai on Jan. 9 with loss of vision in the left eye, a …
Read More »Ranked: 5 of 10 best European business schools are in France
Of Europe’s top 10 business schools, five are in France, two from Spain and one each are in the U.K., Italy and Sweden, according to the Financial Times’ rankings. The 2023 European Business School Rankings issued last month have HEC Paris on top followed by the London Business School and …
Read More »Rural H’Mong family’s first journey away from home for son’s critical medical treatment
Residing in a remote commune without electricity in Dak Nong Province in the Central Highlands, Thao Thi Sau and her husband left the village for the first time due to their son’s swollen stomach. Nearly three-year-old Ma Seo Minh experienced unexplained abdominal pain in April 2023. Tao Thi Sau, 30, …
Read More »HCMC wants more kindergarteners to study English
Municipal education leaders say the 57.4% of Ho Chi Minh City kindergartners studying English is too low a figure, and local authorities aim to up the number. According to the preschool unit under the city’s Department of Education and Training, around 157,000 children aged three-six in HCMC are studying English …
Read More »H’Mong family’s first-time leaving village
Residing in a remote commune without electricity in Dak Nong Province in the Central Highlands, Thao Thi Sau and her husband left the village for the first time due to their son’s swollen stomach. Nearly three-year-old Ma Seo Minh experienced unexplained abdominal pain in April 2023. Tao Thi Sau, 30, …
Read More »Around 20 people killed in explosion at Thai firework factory
Around 20 people were killed in Thailand in an explosion on Wednesday at a firework factory north of Bangkok, police said, as authorities inspected the site but were yet to find survivors. It was not immediately clear what caused the incident, which took place mid-afternoon in Suphan Buri province about …
Read More »US terrorist group coaxes people into deadly attacks in Vietnam: prosecutors
A terrorist group in the U.S. was accused of inciting people in Vietnam to perform terrorist acts to instill fear, prosecutors said at a Tuesday trial for deadly attacks on government offices in Dak Lak. Prosecutors of the Central Highlands’ Dak Lak Province said Y Mut Mlo, the ringleader of …
Read More »US educator calls on parents to discipline kids at home
Parents should not leave the disciplining of their kids entirely to teachers, a U.S. educator has said in a TikTok video. In a clip that had over 70,700 views and 650 comments as of Wednesday, Teresa Kaye Newman, a music educator, responding to a viewer’s comment that traditional disciplinary methods …
Read More »US agency in tie-up with Hanoi hospital to improve stroke care
The United States Mission to Vietnam has said it will provide training and technical support for the stroke center at Bach Mai Hospital, northern Vietnam’s largest medical facility. The support will be provided through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID’s mission director in Vietnam, Aler Grubbs, oversaw on …
Read More »Hanoi man suffers roundworm attacks passed from dog
Roundworm has given a Hanoi man a plethora of illnesses after regularly sleeping with his pet dog. The man, 55, said he had taken three rounds of medicine prescribed by a dermatologist, but his condition did not improve. In fact, a subsequent full medical examination revealed that things were a …
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